What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that ...

A construction crew prepares to remove a monument of Robert E. Lee, the leading general in the Confederate Army, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., May 19, 2017. A construction crew prepares to remove ...

"The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s," MSNBC analyst Joy Reid said on NBC’s Meet The Press, Aug. 13, 2017.

But Confederate symbols, such as the Confederate flag and statues of leaders of the Confederacy during the Civil War, have often been the source of controversy for their perceived racial ties.

Confederate symbols have not always been a part of American or ... For several decades after the Civil War, the Confederate battle emblem was rarely displayed — typically only during tributes to ...

Even for war reenactors, the Confederate flag belongs in the past. Many perceive the flag’s removal as an affront to history, a reduction of the sacrifices made by Confederate soldiers.

The report notes that at no point during the Civil War did any Confederate symbol come within 6 miles of the U.S. Capitol, but during the Jan. 6 insurrection, ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Of those symbols, 685 are ...

The Confederate flag's history as a symbol of racial hatred, rather than a benign emblem of lost heritage, ... "I'm pretty convinced that from the end of the Civil War well up into the 1930s, ...